Dylan Thomas, famous death November 9th

Dylan Thomas's "writing shed"

Dylan Thomas, author-poet, dies in NY at 39 in 1953

Dylan Thomas
Born 27 October 1914[1]
Swansea, South Wales, UK[1]
Died 9 November 1953(1953-11-09) (aged 39)[1]
New York, USA[1]
Occupation Poet and writer
Literary movement Modernism
Romanticism
Spouse(s) Caitlin Macnamara (1937–1953)
Children Llewellyn Edouard Thomas (1939–2000)
Aeronwy Bryn Thomas (1943–2009)
Colm Garan Hart Thomas (b. 1949)

Influences[show]Arthur Rimbaud, D. H. Lawrence, Welsh Mythology, James Joyce, John Donne

Influenced[show]John Lennon, Bob Dylan

Dylan Marlais Thomas (27 October 1914 – 9 November 1953) was a Welsh poet and writer[1][2] who wrote exclusively in English. In addition to poetry, he wrote short stories and scripts for film and radio, which he often performed himself. His public readings, particularly in America, won him great acclaim; his sonorous voice with a subtle Welsh lilt became almost as famous as his works. His best-known works include the "play for voices" Under Milk Wood and the celebrated villanelle for his dying father, "Do not go gentle into that good night". Appreciative critics have also noted the superb craftsmanship and compression of poems such as "In my Craft or Sullen Art"[3] and the rhapsodic lyricism of "Fern Hill'
(Wikipedia)